If it rains for a few days, it will rain like this, and it will rain like this for a few days, not only will the business of the official tooth bureau be damaged, the grain output in Suzhou and Hangzhou will decline, there will be no food in Yingtian, and there will be many people in the disaster, and Yingtian will not be stable.

He can't be an idle prince, so he doesn't care if he doesn't care about it.

Zhu Bai thought for a while and asked Tu Yachang: "How is the official grain transported now?" ”

Tu Yachang: "My official food in the Ming Dynasty is transported by sea, river, and land. The military rations in the north go from the river to the sea to Tongzhou or Liaodong, or from the river to Huai and Huang, and then to Yan and Qin. The others are transported by land to the side of the Grand Canal, and then transported by the canal to Yingtian. Shipping is military transportation, because it is to transport military rations. The rest are the democratic movement, because it is a tax paid to the heavens from all over the country. ”

Zhu Bai frowned: That is to say, this section of Changsu-Hangzhou relies on private transportation.

Lao Zhu set the capital in Yingtian back then, and also considered that it was close to the rich land of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and it was convenient to transport grain. If water transportation can't work, take the land route, anyway, the state capitals will solve it themselves, so they have not spent any effort to dredge the canal.

Dredging must be dredged, but it is definitely not possible for the official tooth bureau to dredge, so he will not do this wrong.

Zhu Bai said, "Bring paper and pen." ”

He took the paper and pen, wrote a piece of paper, stamped it with his seal, put it in an envelope, and handed it to Fugui: "Tell someone to send it to my father quickly." I got my father's approval and came back, and I waited in Changzhou. ”

This will set off, hurry up, and arrive in the evening.

Fugui hurriedly went out.

Zhu Bai said to Tu Yachang: "This king asked you to sort out the list, have you sorted it out?" ”

Tu Yachang hurriedly replied: "Yes, yes, there are various lists." ”

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Zhu Bai came out of the official tooth bureau and went straight back to the Changzhou Mansion.

Seeing that Zhu Bai had finally returned, Governor Sun was busy asking someone to serve tea and arrange snacks.

Zhu Bai smiled and said while eating snacks: "Lord Sun, this time this king came to inspect, first, to see the operation of the official tooth bureau, and secondly, to see how the county school and state school are doing for my father. ”

Governor Sun was busy and sighed: "Alas. The state school has been running for a long time. The magistrates only said that there was no money, so the county school had not yet opened. ”

Zhu Bai nodded slightly: "It's okay, so you call all the magistrates, and this king wants to hold a meeting for them." ”

Governor Sun muttered in his heart, but he didn't dare to disobey, and only said: "It won't be until noon tomorrow at the earliest." ”

Zhu Bai: "It's okay. ”

Governor Sun hurriedly called the official to go down and inform.

Zhu Bai waited for him to come back, and said, "I don't know how many big merchants there are in Changzhou?" ”

Governor Sun said: "There are a few. ”

Zhu Bai: "Call all the merchants with an annual profit of more than 200 taels and a house and field area of more than five acres." The king wanted to have tea with them. Where is there a good tea house in Changzhou city, it is best to be close to the canal. ”

Sun Zhifu said: "The Mingxiang Building on the side of the Dongcheng Canal is relatively quiet. ”

Zhu Bai: "Okay, then Mingxianglou." See you tomorrow at noon. ”

Governor Sun could only go out again to ask the officials to inform the big merchants, and then sighed secretly: It is said that this King of Hunan is a "little Yama King", and he is very capable of tossing people.

At this time, he had only sat down for less than half a column of incense when he came in, and he had already tossed him in and out several times.

Zhu Bai waited for him to come in, smiled and said, "Master Sun will remember to come tomorrow." "And left.

Although there was a steady stream of news about Zhu Bai back to the palace, Lao Zhu was still a little surprised to receive Zhu Bai's letter.

This kid can even rob mountain bandits, what else can he do to find us?

He opened the letter and saw that Zhu Bai used the ghostly words to talk about the blockage of the canal to the point that the transportation was not smooth, and the coast was prone to waterlogging, and then proposed a solution and asked for Lao Zhu's consent.

According to Zhu Bai's style in the past, he should have told Zhu Biao about this in advance, and then instigated Zhu Biao to ask Lao Zhu for instructions.

This time, probably because it was very urgent, and he was afraid that he would not be in the palace, and the news was transmitted incorrectly, so Zhu Bai reported it directly to Lao Zhu for the first time.

Lao Zhu smiled: Boy, we really didn't misunderstand you, you didn't go out just to eat, drink and have fun, but to do big things.

Then he immediately replied to the letter and asked for someone to escort the person who delivered the letter back to Changzhou.

Zhu Bai stayed in his special room in the Guanya Bureau at night.

The person he had sent to deliver the letter to Ying Tian had already returned.

Zhu Bai rewarded him with five taels of silver and told him to rest, and then unfolded Zhu Yuanzhang's reply.

It is a decree of appointment.

Zhu Bai smiled: Lao Zhu is really the person who understands him best and is the wisest.

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The next day, Zhu Baisi arrived at three o'clock.

He not only called Sun Yong but also invited Wang Qianhu, and then found a big elegant seat by the window, ordered a lot of snacks, and waited leisurely while eating.

When those merchants heard that the king of Xiang called themselves, where did they dare not come.

At noon, more than a dozen came, all standing by the door and not daring to come out.

Zhu Bai asked Sun Yong: "Are you here?" ”

Sun Yong looked at it and said, "It's all right." ”

Zhu Bai raised his chin at Tu Yachang: "Come, read your list." ”

Then Tu Yachang opened a booklet and began to roll call.

There were twenty-one orders, but there were only fifteen here.

Zhu Bai smiled at Sun Yong: "The prefect doesn't know enough about the merchants in Changzhou." ”

Sun Yong only wiped his sweat: "Yes, the lower officials are incompetent." ”

Those few, it's not that he doesn't scream, it's that he can't move.

Moreover, although these people are in business, their household registration is not a registered business, so it makes sense that he does not call them.

Zhu Bai silently took out his waist card and said to Tu Yachang: "Come, Tu Ya Chang has worked hard and asked someone to invite the rest of the people on the list." ”

After another half of the incense time, the rest also expired.

Zhu Bai silently looked at the next few carefully and kept them in his heart.

Sun Yong secretly complained in his heart: this little king of Hades could have taken out this list to call people from the beginning, but he wanted him to call it.

After coming and going, he figured out the details of his and the merchants.

Zhu Bai smiled and said, "Come on, come on, the later ones will sit on the left hand side of the king, and the first ones will sit on the right hand side." We talked as we drank tea and ate snacks. Tell the guy to move a few more chairs. All sit down. ”

The guy ran down to move the chair and whispered: "It's really strange today, all the big families in the city are surrounding a child like a grandson, and the prefect doesn't dare to come out." ”

Many people have heard about it and want to see what kind of child it is.

The rich and noble have long guarded the staircase and not called the idlers to come up.

So people who watch the excitement can only look downstairs.

Zhu Bai smiled: "Don't be nervous. The reason why I have invited you today is to ask for your opinion on the operation of the Bureau. ”

The wealthy businessmen all laughed: "It's good, it's good." No comments. ”

"Your Highness is wise and martial, and has a good leadership."

In fact, they are secretly saying in their hearts:, the tooth chief of the official dental bureau is on the side. How dare we say anything. Otherwise, I won't have to do business in the future.

Besides, this is your Zhu family's unique business, is it good or not, aren't we all only accepting?